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Art Students League 75th Anniversary Exhibition Opens March 16 at Metropolitan Museum

THE
METROPOLITAN
USEUM OF ART
FIFTH AYE.at 82 STREET • NEW YORK
N EWS pM Saturday, March 10, 1951
FOR AM Sunday, March 11, 1951
RELEASE
PRESS VIEW: Friday, Mar. £, 1951 - 2 to 4:30 PM
ART STUDENTS LEAGUE 75TH ANNIVERSARY EXHIBITION OPENS MARCH 16 AT METROPOLITAN MUSEUM
Constituting "an extraordinary record of achievement by an extraordinary school,"
an exhibition of paintings, drawings and sculpture by seventy-five artists associated with the Art Students League of New York from its early days to the present
opens this Friday (March 16) at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. The exhibition Is
presented by the Art Students League through the courtesy of the Trustees of The
Metropolitan Museum of Art. The pictures were selected and hung by a Committee of
the League.
Leading museums throughout the country have lent works to the League for this
Diamond Jubilee exhibition. Included will be The Concert S,inger by Thomas Eakins
from the Philadelphia Museum of Art; The_ Young Woman in White by Rbbert Henri from
the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DkC»} Emma and her Children by George
Bellows from the Boston Museum of Fine Arts; Hogs Killing a Rattlesnake by John
Steuart Curry from the Art Institute of Chicago; Otis Skinner by George Luks from the
Phillips Gallery, Washington, D.C.; and Trio by Walt Kuhn from the Colorado Springs
Fine Arts Center.
Other museums, organizations, galleries and private collectors have lent work
by George Inness, Augustus Saint-Gaudens, John Sloan, Jacob Epstein, Yasuo Kuniyoshi,
Reginald Marsh, Georgia O'Keeffe, Alexander Calder and many other.
Noting that the Metropolitan Museum was founded just five years before the League
and that there had always been a close relationship between the two institutions,
Robert Beverly Hale, Associate Curator of American Art, said that it seemed particularly appropriate that the exhibition should be held at the Museum.
"From the earliest days every student of the League has supplemented his studies
by visits to the Metropolitan," said Mr. Hale. "Many have since contributed works of
art to the permanent collections.
"This exhibition constitutes an extraordinary record of achievement by an extraordinary school. Much of the credit must go to the great teachers the League developed or supported through the years; such men as Eakins, Henri, Luks, Kenneth Hayes
Miller, George Bridgman and Frank Vincent DuMond. But the real strength of the League
lies in its tradition and its spirit. It is still, as it was seventy-five years ago,
youthful, dynamic and democratic; it Is still fiercely free and independent."
The Art Students League has published an illustrated catalogue containing a
biography of each artist and an appreciation of his work. It will be on sale during
the exhibition, which will continue through Sunday, April 29.
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(ATTACHED IS A COMPLETE LIST OF ARTISTS AND THEIR WORKS IN THE EXHIBITION)

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THE
METROPOLITAN
USEUM OF ART
FIFTH AYE.at 82 STREET • NEW YORK
N EWS pM Saturday, March 10, 1951
FOR AM Sunday, March 11, 1951
RELEASE
PRESS VIEW: Friday, Mar. £, 1951 - 2 to 4:30 PM
ART STUDENTS LEAGUE 75TH ANNIVERSARY EXHIBITION OPENS MARCH 16 AT METROPOLITAN MUSEUM
Constituting "an extraordinary record of achievement by an extraordinary school,"
an exhibition of paintings, drawings and sculpture by seventy-five artists associated with the Art Students League of New York from its early days to the present
opens this Friday (March 16) at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. The exhibition Is
presented by the Art Students League through the courtesy of the Trustees of The
Metropolitan Museum of Art. The pictures were selected and hung by a Committee of
the League.
Leading museums throughout the country have lent works to the League for this
Diamond Jubilee exhibition. Included will be The Concert S,inger by Thomas Eakins
from the Philadelphia Museum of Art; The_ Young Woman in White by Rbbert Henri from
the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DkC»} Emma and her Children by George
Bellows from the Boston Museum of Fine Arts; Hogs Killing a Rattlesnake by John
Steuart Curry from the Art Institute of Chicago; Otis Skinner by George Luks from the
Phillips Gallery, Washington, D.C.; and Trio by Walt Kuhn from the Colorado Springs
Fine Arts Center.
Other museums, organizations, galleries and private collectors have lent work
by George Inness, Augustus Saint-Gaudens, John Sloan, Jacob Epstein, Yasuo Kuniyoshi,
Reginald Marsh, Georgia O'Keeffe, Alexander Calder and many other.
Noting that the Metropolitan Museum was founded just five years before the League
and that there had always been a close relationship between the two institutions,
Robert Beverly Hale, Associate Curator of American Art, said that it seemed particularly appropriate that the exhibition should be held at the Museum.
"From the earliest days every student of the League has supplemented his studies
by visits to the Metropolitan," said Mr. Hale. "Many have since contributed works of
art to the permanent collections.
"This exhibition constitutes an extraordinary record of achievement by an extraordinary school. Much of the credit must go to the great teachers the League developed or supported through the years; such men as Eakins, Henri, Luks, Kenneth Hayes
Miller, George Bridgman and Frank Vincent DuMond. But the real strength of the League
lies in its tradition and its spirit. It is still, as it was seventy-five years ago,
youthful, dynamic and democratic; it Is still fiercely free and independent."
The Art Students League has published an illustrated catalogue containing a
biography of each artist and an appreciation of his work. It will be on sale during
the exhibition, which will continue through Sunday, April 29.
-0-
(ATTACHED IS A COMPLETE LIST OF ARTISTS AND THEIR WORKS IN THE EXHIBITION)